The speechwriter and the president

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Salon's Dan Conley pretty much puts his finger on the frustration I (and, I assume, many others) feel concerning BO. Viz.,

Speechwriter Obama understands the zeitgeist while President Obama seems a prisoner to it. Speechwriter Obama slyly dropped praise of American atheists into a speech about race and religion. President Obama was forced to react to the “ground zero mosque” controversy, and stumbled. Speechwriter Obama promised that his presidency would be the time when the planet would be healed. President Obama signed on to more offshore drilling shortly before the Gulf oil spill and has stood mute while Russia burns and Pakistan drowns.

The speechwriter is obviously the man people voted for in 2008; the President is the man who may be responsible for a political cataclysm come November, 2010.